Palo Alto

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2020-10

Labels: Verve Records, Impulse!, UMe, Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment

Issued in gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve.

Includes 12-page 8" x 8" booklet with photos, essays and credits, as well a 12-page 5.25" x 8.25" replica concert program by the Palo Alto High School International Club, and 16.5" x 10.5" replica concert poster.

Hype sticker affixed to shrink:
"VMP EXCLUSIVE VINYL EDITION
- Exclusive Orange Swirl Vinyl
- Limited too 1,500 Foil-Stamped + Numbered Copies
- Unknown. Unheard. Until Now. Thelonious Monk - 1968."

Issued on reproduction Impulse labels. The labels and included materials include the catalog number B0032181-01, which matches the black vinyl's catalog number.

Labels:
Impulse appears on jacket spine, labels.
Logos for UMe, Verve and Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment appear on jacket back.
Logos for Impulse and Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment appear in booklet.

Recorded by The Staff at Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA | October 27, 1968
Mastered by Seth Foster at Universal Music Mastering Studios, NY and Grand Mixer DXT
Lacquers cut at Sterling Sounds Studios, NJ
Engineered, Sonic Restoration and Forensic Editing by Grand Mixer DXT
Tape transfer done by Sterling Sound Mastering
Analog tape restoration by Kevin Przybylowski at Sonicraft A2DX Lab, Red Bank, NJ

℗© 2020 Rhythm-A-Ning Entertainment, Inc.

A few days before the planned release on July 31, 2020, this release was withdrawn due to a legal dispute between Monk's estate and his previous label. Copies found their way into retail anyway. The new release date was set to Sept. 18, 2020.